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# Senior Cloud Architect

- **Company:** May Business Consulting
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=42108e3e450e6984

## About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect with strong experience designing and delivering complex cloud solutions. Ideally, you will have solid expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the ability to bring together the different technical and business elements of a solution into a coherent, scalable, secure, and robust architecture.

This is a senior position requiring strong technical leadership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders to understand requirements, challenge assumptions, and translate business needs into effective cloud solutions., * Significant professional experience as a Cloud Architect, Solution Architect, or similar senior architecture role.

 * Strong knowledge of cloud architecture and cloud-native solutions.
 * Experience designing and delivering complex enterprise cloud environments.
 * Strong understanding of networking, security, identity and access management, integration, compute, storage, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
 * Ability to define and own end-to-end solution architectures.
 * Strong analytical skills and ability to translate complex requirements into practical technical solutions.
 * Experience working with multidisciplinary technical teams and senior stakeholders.
 * Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
 * High level of autonomy and ability to provide technical leadership within complex projects.

## Description

* Lead the design and definition of end-to-end cloud architectures, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
 * Define solution architecture, integration patterns, infrastructure components, and cloud services.
 * Work closely with technical teams and stakeholders to gather requirements and bring together all aspects of the solution design.
 * Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
 * Design solutions with a focus on scalability, security, resilience, performance, and maintainability.
 * Ensure cloud solutions follow architectural principles, security standards, and industry best practices.
 * Identify technical dependencies, risks, constraints, and potential improvements.
 * Produce and maintain clear architecture documentation and technical designs.
 * Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, security, application, and business teams.
 * Support technical decision-making and communicate complex architectural concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.